Most Chiropractic Clinic Cautions Back Pain Sufferers About Lifting and Flexion

Controversy. There is always controversy in medicine. Controversy can also move medicine toward clarity. Such is the case of lifting in a flexed position and its impact on your spine. Your Murfreesboro chiropractor cautions Murfreesboro back pain patients to carefully bend, lift and twist as these initiate low back pain for many. Most Chiropractic Clinic still does. Recent studies explain more about the effects of flexion and lifting on the spine and its experience of back pain.

FLEXION LIFTING: NO INFLUENCE

The latest research study examined numerous studies about the impact lumbar spine flexion has and its influence on low back pain onset/persistence. Researchers discovered that lumbar spine flexion lifting was not a differentiator for people with and without low back pain. These investigations weren’t specific as to categories of people. They looked at two types of people: those with and those without back pain. (1) Other studies studied specific types of people.

FLEXION LIFTING: INFLUENTIAL FOR WORKERS

Researchers concluded that the effect of forward bending on low back pain is determined by on the type of job, gender and other such specific factors of workers. They found that construction workers’ experience of low back pain was not affected by the amount of time they spent bending forward. They found that healthcare workers’ experience of low back pain was altered by the angle of forward bending (more than or equal to 30 degrees triggered low back pain while over 60 degree did not). (2) Warehouse workers’ experience of low back pain is influenced by their lifting capacity and psychosocial work environment. Researchers texted workers asking about their low back pain, mental stress, and bodily fatigue over the course of 3 weeks and again at one year. They hoped that a better design of the work week (work days vs rest days) and a set reasonable maximum lifting threshold per day will assist in preventing low back pain and lessen stress. (3) Most Chiropractic Clinic works to make sure our work environment is stress-less and low-back-pain-reducing for everyone, our staff and our Murfreesboro chiropractic patients alike!

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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Victor Shu on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. He describes how The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management attained relief of low back pain for a construction worker whose job surely taxes his spine!

Schedule a back-pain-relieving Murfreesboro chiropractic care appointment with Most Chiropractic Clinic. Controversy aside, low back pain due to work environments that require flexion bending and lifting can be helped at Most Chiropractic Clinic.